Determination of some toxic and essential metal ions in medicinal and edible plants from Mali

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2316-2321

  Maiga, Ababacar ^a,b   Diallo, Drissa ^a   Bye, Ragnar ^b   Paulsen, Berit Smestad ^a,b  

^a Department of Traditional Medicine ^*  (Mali)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Edible plants; Malian medicinal plants; Nutritional metal ions; Toxic metal ions

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BOMBAX; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CUMIN; HIBISCUS; MALI; MEDICINAL PLANT; METAL EXTRACTION; METAL ION TESTING; SCREENING; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING;

MALI; METALS; METALS, HEAVY; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

BOMBAX; CUMINUM CYMINUM; HIBISCUS; HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA; MALIA; SPILANTHES;

EID: 15444369162     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf040436o     Document Type: Article

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